Leaf
Bibliographers use the term
leaf for part of a folded sheet:
each of its two sides makes a page. The
number of leaves made from each sheet depends on the format of the book. In a folio, each sheet is folded into two
leaves, or four pages; in a quarto,
each sheet is folded into four leaves, or eight pages; in an octavo, each sheet is folded into eight
leaves, or sixteen pages.
From the Guide to Literary Terms by Jack Lynch.
Please send comments to jlynch@andromeda.rutgers.edu.
Note: This guide is still in the early stages of development. Bear with me.